Former Intelligence Officer with the National Security Agency Offers Techniques to Prevent On-Line Activities from Being Associated with Individual Personas

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Oct 31, 2016) - Masergy Communications Inc. today announced that Black Hat Europe 2016 has selected David Venable, the company's Vice President of Cyber Security, to discuss a variety of techniques used by the mass surveillance industry to analyze personal metadata and what people can do to protect their personal information.

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David Venable is a former intelligence officer with the National Security Agency, with extensive experience in Computer Network Exploitation, Information Operations, and Digital Network Intelligence and cryptography. He has also taught about these subjects while serving as adjunct faculty at the National Cryptologic School. In addition, David has also developed and managed several U.S. national-level projects in support of global anti-terrorism operations.

"The metadata of your life is being gathered and stockpiled by collection capabilities that even Orwell couldn't have imagined, and it's not just being done by governments," Venable said. "I look forward to addressing today's Big Data/metadata activities on behalf of Masergy with Black Hat Europe's attendees."